Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

A. Gosseries · A. Marciano · A. Strowel

Oct 2008 · Springer

About this ebook

Fourteen philosophers, economists and legal scholars address the question 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?' What differentiates intellectual from real property? Should libertarians or Rawlsians defend IP rights? What's wrong with free-riding? How can incentives be taken into account by theories of justice?

About the author

DANIEL ATTAS is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Integrative Program: Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel PAUL BELLEFLAMME is Professor of Economics at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium ALEXANDRA COUTO is at Oxford University, UK GEERT DEMUIJNCK is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Catholic University of Lille, France PETER DIETSCH is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Université de Montréal, Canada SPERANTA DUMITRU is a Post-doc Research Fellow, CERSES (CNRS and Université Paris-Descartes, France GILLES FALQUET is Professor of Informatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland SHUBHA GHOSH is a Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, USA FRANÇOIS GRIN is Professor of Economics, University of Geneva and a Visiting Professor, University of Lugano, Switzerland ANNABELLE LEVER is a Fellow, Philosophy Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK GIOVANNI BATTISTA RAMELLO is Associate Professor of Industrial Economics, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy SEANA VALENTINE SHIFFRIN is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, LA, USA JONATHAN TRERISE is a Lecturer, Florida International University, Miami, USA